Human Rights Quotes - Page 16

• When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rights, Long, People

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• Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, Military, Winning

  John Foster Dulles (1960). “The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses”, Philadelphia : Westminister Press

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• When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Inspiration, Struggle

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• We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Eye, Rights

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.

  Poul Hartling

  Religious, Roots, Rights

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Sex, Rights, Race

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• I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Rights, Speaks Out

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• The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Rights, Political

  Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”

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• Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Pythagorean Theorem, Rights

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.32, Vintage

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• Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other groups. This constant, often legitimate criticism of Israel for every one of its deviations, when coupled with the absence of legitimate criticism of others, creates the impression currently prevalent on university campuses and in the press that Israel is among the worst human rights violators in the world....it is not true, but if it is repeated often enough, it takes on a reality of its own.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Political

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• A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

  Lynn Nottage

  Responsibility, Rights, Play

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• Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Political, Trials

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• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

  Lisa Kudrow

  Sex, Rights, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

  Judith Light

  Mean, Gay, Rights

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• Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

  Bayard Rustin

  Character, Gay, Rights

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• We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

  John Trudell

  Ignorance, Reality, Rights

  John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Rights, Expression

  "Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s Imprisonment a Painful Reminder of China’s Dictatorship" by Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

  George H. W. Bush

  Christian, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.

  John Cornyn

  Running, Rights, Government

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